UNITED KINGDOM
Irish Independent
By Ryan Hooper
Friday December 14 2012
TWO men accused of carrying out sex abuse on children as part of a witches’ coven have been convicted of several offences.
Peter Petrauske and Jack Kemp were said to have donned ceremonial robes and pagan paraphernalia before abusing young girls in Cornwall in England during the 1970s.
Police believe one of their victims may have been as young as three when the abuse started.
The pair, aged 72 and 69 respectively, showed little emotion as they were led from the dock at Truro Crown Court and into custody.
Petrauske, who described himself as the high priest of a white witches’ coven in St Ives, Cornwall, was convicted of one count of rape, one count of aiding and abetting an attempt to rape, and one count of indecent assault, all by unanimous verdict.
Kemp was unanimously found guilty of indecent assault and indecency with a child, as well as seven other sexual offences by a majority verdict.
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